Prosthodontics

Strictly speaking Prosthodontics is the replacement of missing natural teeth. Traditionally this was carried out with the provision of removable dentures. Modern techniques provide fixed solutions including bridges and implants.

Conventional Bridges
This treatment involves the preparation or reduction of natural teeth so that a series of crowns can be used to support the artificial tooth or “pontic”.

Minimal preparation or “sticky” bridges
With the advent of modern adhesive technology preparation or reduction of natural teeth can be avoided by the use of glues to bond the artificial tooth or pontic directly to natural teeth.

Implants
“Implants” exploit the natural healing of the body called “osseo-integration” around titanium. This allows a cylindrical or tapered post to be directly inserted into the bone to become an artificial root which can be used to support crowns and bridges. Implants can be used to replace single and multiple teeth in each jaw. To learn more, please click here.

We shall start treating patients on the 15th of June, but this will not be treatment as usual!

To keep everybody safe, we are reducing the number of staff and patients in the building at any one time to ensure social distancing. Our reception and clerical staff will be working offsite, and we shall use telephone, text, and email as far as possible. Please telephone us, rather than coming into the practice.

We will be employing new protocols with increased PPE. At the start only two dentists and two nurses will be in attendance, initially with only one patient on site at any time. It will take us a little time to develop a new routine, but we hope to open further surgeries as soon as possible.

Let me assure you that we are all keen to get back to looking after our patients, ensuring it is safe to do so!